Occupation: Philosopher Birth: January 27, 1775 Death: August 20, 1854
To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation..
Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?.
The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth..
All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create..
Mastery is revealed in limitation..
One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only pres….
Only he who knows God is truly moral..
...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced..
The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it ….
Architecture in general is frozen music..
Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music..
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowl….
Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature..
There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time..